Alternative Android OS for Niche Phone

I'm looking for a way to completely degoogle my android-phone. Problem, my phone is quite a niche one (Moondrop Miad01) so it basically appears on no compatibility list whatsoever. Any idea which android os would work for it?
Or in general, is there a chance that LineageOS could run even though my phone isn't listed as supported device?

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Where to host open source utility: does it matter?

I'm working on a small open-source text utility that's privacy-focused (runs entirely locally without any servers). I still want to provide a hosted static site for people to use the utility without having to download and run it themselves. For the open source community, does the hosting platform matter - specifically GitHub Pages (with custom domain) versus Netlify? Do contributors and users have a preference?

My main consideration is whether GitHub Pages offers better transparency and verifiability—making it clearer that the deployed site matches the repository code. The primary advantage of Netlify would be access to basic, anonymous traffic metrics (like daily page view counts). But not sure if it matters?

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How FOSS Projects Handle Legal Takedown Requests
https://f-droid.org/2025/09/10/how-foss-projects-handle-legal-takedown-requests.html

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Tau Net & Agoras


For years, the promise of decentralization has been a core goal of the tech world. Yet, this promise has often been overshadowed by a reality where power remains concentrated in the hands of a few developers, governance becomes a social popularity contest, and software is vulnerable to human error. Today, we turn a new page by introducing a project designed to solve these fundamental challenges.

**What is Tau Net? A Truly Decentralized Network**

At its core, **Tau Net is The User-Controlled Blockchain.** Unlike traditional projects, Tau Net is not manually coded by a team of developers. Instead, it is automatically generated—or **synthesized**—from the collective will and logical specifications of its participants using program synthesis. This means that the people who use the network directly determine its behavior, its rules, and its future. Users are no longer passive participants but active architects of the system.

**A Paradigm Shift in Governance: Governance by Specification**

Tau Net's most groundbreaking innovation is its "Governance by Specification" model. This puts an end to endless debates, ambiguous proposals, and manual voting. On Tau Net, participants express their intentions and the rules for how the network should behave in a formal language. The system then logically analyzes these specifications, automatically identifying all points of agreement and disagreement within the community. The network synthesizes its own updates based on the agreed-upon logic, with mathematical proof of its accuracy.

**Powering the New Knowledge Economy: Agoras ($AGRS)**

A revolutionary network deserves a revolutionary economy. **Agoras ($AGRS)** is the native token of the Tau Net ecosystem, and it is far more than a simple currency. Agoras is designed to fuel a next-generation marketplace where high-value assets are traded, such as:
* Formalized and verified knowledge and algorithms.
* Smart contracts that can reason, and autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents.
* Decentralized Artificial Intelligence (DeFAI) assets and computational resources.

**Our Mission: Large-Scale Collaboration Between Humans and Machines**

Ultimately, the mission of Tau Net is to pioneer a new era of large-scale, automated collaboration and development between humans and machines. Our goal is to build a future where consensus is reached automatically, software is created flawlessly, and collective intelligence can be harnessed to solve problems on a global scale.

This is more than an introduction; it's an invitation to join us on a journey to redefine the future of the internet and collaboration.

**To discover more and join our community:**
* **Official Website:** https://tau .net
* **Twitter:** https://twitter.com/tau_net
* **Telegram:** @ taunet/1
* **Discord:** https://discord .com/invite/nsCZ4f3wqH

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New distro: Zenned

Hi folks!

Since I was I child my main passion has been to make computers work the best I could.

25 years later, after 4 years of intense work, I have put all that knowledge into code and made a new distro!

My goal is to solve fundamental problems that current distros have, and make one that is nice overall. One that could actually turn libre software a convenient standard for most people.

It’s an extremely simple to use distro, minimalist. But most importantly in a way that allows great configurability, and flexibility to develop it quickly.

This flexibility makes it easy to fix bugs and improve things with no hassle.

I could give all kinds of details on how it is implemented, but I believe it’s just better to try it and see that it actually works nicely.

The important point I want to make is this: many things about the distro are quite counterintuitive, but most likely they are chosen like that after plenty of thinking. Nevertheless any feedback is highly appreciated.

So here it goes!

https://zenned.gitlab.io/

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GitHub - h2337/tsink: Embedded time-series database for Rust
https://github.com/h2337/tsink

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Notes App

I'm searching for an open source notes app with the following properties:

runs on linux
available as flatpak
I should be able to draw with a pen
It should be able so sync with samba, webdav, whatever
some kind of ai integration would also be nice
would be nice if it'd be able to export to other formats than its own

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Open Source Chrome Extension for Scraping – NO AI

Hi everyone!

I just released OnPage.dev, an open-source Chrome extension for visual web scraping.

Key features:

Select elements visually with hover highlights
Smart scraping with auto-scroll
Export data to CSV or JSON
Run locally with Node.js backend or use the hosted cloud version at onpage.dev

The extension is fully open-source, so you can self-host and keep your data private.

GitHub: https://github.com/OnPage-Scraper/OnPage-Scraper

I’d love feedback, suggestions, and contributions. Open to feature ideas, improvements, and bug reports!

Legal note: Please scrape responsibly and respect site terms of service.

https://redd.it/1nhiaiq
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Looking for some Backend Heavy ideas for my Resume

CRUD applications don't stand out in a sea of applications these days. Looking for some ideas that actually solves a problem but are difficult to implement.

Difficult in the sense that require good understanding of backend concepts.

My Tech stack is MERN, React Native, Learning ML atm.

https://redd.it/1nhhbwk
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C++ DataFrame new version (3.6.0) is out

C++ DataFrame new version includes a bunch of new analytical and data-wrangling routines. But the big news is a significant rework of documentations both in terms of visuals and content.

Your feedback is appreciated.

https://redd.it/1nhlcwn
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OSI charts next phase for the organization with executive director search
https://opensource.org/blog/osi-next-phase-executive-director-search

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New Website for my OSS Digital Signage Toolkit released.
https://garlic-signage.com/

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@turbodocx/html-to-docx - Now supporting Right-To-Left Languages!

At u/TurboDocx, our mission has always been to make document and signature automation accessible for everyone, everywhere.

We’re excited to announce that `@turbodocx/html-to-docx` now supports Right-to-Left (RTL) languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, Persian, and more.

This means global teams can now:

Generate documents in their native language
Keep everything branded and consistent
Build platforms with internationalization in mind
Agent-ready with multi-lingual support.

This update brings us closer to serving teams everywhere, in every language.

Install it:

npm install @turbodocx/html-to-docx

Yes, this is MIT licensed. Yes, we always welcome contributions. Star us on GitHub and lets make Document Generation easy again!

https://redd.it/1nhnluk
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Collective AI Tools - A curated collection of 300+ AI tools and resources

Hey r/opensource! I've been working on Collective AI Tools, an open source directory that catalogs and organizes AI tools across different categories.

Website: Collective AI Tools

GitHub: https://github.com/Hyraze/collective-ai-tools

Would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions!

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I'm building Miopoint: an open-source, federated media server for friend groups.

You're all probably familiar with Plex and Jellyfin. They're awesome, but I've always felt they were designed as a one-way street. It's my server, my library, and my friends are just guests. I wanted to build something different—a truly collaborative space.

And I don't just mean for media. I want a private place to share anything with my friends: movies, documents, project folders, zip files, you name it. All in one place with a built-in group chat.

That's why I started Miopoint.

Here's the hook: I got tired of being the bottleneck and the sole provider of storage. So, what if Miopoint wasn't about creating one big server? What if my friend could run their own server at their house, and I could run mine, and we could securely connect them?

Suddenly, our libraries become one giant, virtual library that we can all browse. No more "can you download this for me," and no single person has to shoulder all the storage costs.

The goal is a private, federated network for you and your friends.
Here are the core features I'm aiming for:

Connected Libraries: Each friend hosts their own Miopoint instance and links them together. Everyone shares their own content without giving up control.
Watch Parties Built-In: Sync up a movie from anyone's library and use the integrated chat to talk smack in real-time.
AI-Powered Search: Automatically tag everything so you can search across the entire network for "that 90s sci-fi movie with the weird aliens" and actually find it. Plus, reverse image search for finding scenes.
Shared Compute: This is a cool one. If your PC is too slow for a video transcode or an AI task, you can ask a friend's more powerful server to handle it for you.
File & Chat Hub: More than just media—share any file type and chat securely with your group.

This is my first FOSS project, and I'm learning as I go. I've started the backend with Python/FastAPI, but I've hit the point where my vision is way bigger than what one person can build. The project structure might be weird, and I'm 100% open to being told a better way to do things—even if it means a rewrite.
I'm looking for people who think this idea is cool and want to help shape it:

Frontend Devs: I've started a Svelte frontend, but I'm open to whatever works best. If you have experience with React, Vue, etc., I'd love your input.
Backend Devs: Anyone who knows their way around Python, networking, databases, and APIs.
UI/UX Designers: People who can help make this easy and fun to use for non-techy folks.
DevOps Pros: Help get a solid Docker and CI/CD pipeline going.
Anyone with ideas! Seriously. Your feedback is gold.

If you're interested, please check out the repo. It's the perfect time to get involved and make a real impact on the project's direction.

GitHub Repo: MioPoint

Thanks for reading!

TL;DR: Building Miopoint, a self-hosted server where you and friends connect your separate servers to create one giant, shared library for media, files, and chat. It's an ambitious FOSS project and I'm looking for collaborators of all kinds to help me build it right.

https://redd.it/1nhzg90
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Meta question: What's the etiquette around scraping GitHub's README.md for open source projects?

Hey so i've been deep diving the N8N ecosystem lately and there's so much cool stuff being built but it's scattered across hundreds of repos. I want to build a curated tracker that pulls readme content to autocategorize these projects for personal use.

My technical approach is pretty straightforward - I found a MCP server from Bright Data that can extract any page as clean markdown, which would be perfect for parsing README files consistently. I wouldn't be hitting it a billion times a minute at all. But before I even write the first prompt/line of code, I'm wondering about the ethics here.

So is scraping a public repo's README files generally acceptable? Should I be reaching out to maintainers first?

I'm pretty new lol and don't want to step on any toes/break any unwritten OSS community rules.

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What service do you guys use to accept donos for your open sources projects?

Hey I'm making a project and desided to make it open source ( this is my first one so any advice is wanted), I wanted to add buy me coffee link and did not know what service to use . I wanted to create this open source porject to help peopl as well as raise money for my company :) its a chrome extentino that auto applys to jobs https://github.com/ClarenceJordanIII/auto\_apply\_chrome\_extension-/tree/master

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pgEdge (distributed, multi-master PostgreSQL) goes Open Source under PostgreSQL license
https://www.pgedge.com/blog/pgedge-goes-open-source

https://redd.it/1ni83lo
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New Mattermost Plugin – Auto Smart Status for Calls

Hey all,

We just released a little plugin for Mattermost called Smart Status. It does one simple thing:

👉 Automatically sets your custom status (like “In a Meeting”) when you join a call, and clears it when you leave.

No more forgetting to flip your status back and forth 🙌

🔗 GitHub: mattermost-plugin-smart-status

It’s open-source, lightweight, and easy to drop into your Mattermost server.

Still early, so feedback/ideas are super welcome! 🚀

— Built by Inocentum Technologies

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An open source bleep machine that lives in your browser
https://neonwatty.github.io/bleep-that-shit/

https://redd.it/1nic66e
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We made an open-source port of Reticulum to Rust. Any feedback & suggestions are very much appreciated

From the README:

Reticulum-rs is a Rust implementation of the Reticulum Network Stack — a cryptographic, decentralised, and resilient mesh networking protocol designed for communication over any physical layer.

This project brings Reticulum's capabilities to the Rust ecosystem, enabling embedded, and constrained deployments with maximum performance and minimal dependencies.

 

We appreciate any feedback and ideas on how to make this better for the community:

https://github.com/BeechatNetworkSystemsLtd/Reticulum-rs

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